3 stars out of 4 -- "Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore are magnificent....Barrymore is a revelation....She finds Edie's unquenchable spirit."Rolling Stone "Barrymore nails an elusive accent and tricky mannerisms." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "Barrymore and Lange aren't just good as Little and Big Edith Bouvier: They're damn near perfect. The same can be said of the film..." -- Grade: AA.V. Club24.448

"[With] striking cinematography and rich production design, evoking the lower strata of 1860s Paris..."USA Today "[A] film rich in atmosphere..."Los Angeles Times "Olsen and Isaac smolder nicely on cue in their scenes together, and Lange easily fits into the role of the domineering Madame Raquin..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Director Charlie Stratton wraps his adaptation in the appropriate period dress of Zola's era."RogerEbert.com "The darkly muted colors, evoking gathering storms and winter chill, add a brooding note."New York Times "IN SECRET imbues Zolas dark tale of love, lust, and murder in the lower echelons of Paris with modern-day appeal in large part thanks to its stellar principal cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange, and Oscar Isaac."Film Comment24.19807

"...Lange makes herself a perfect physical extension of the vibrant, changeable, enormously expressive woman who can be heard on these recordings....Both skillful and credible..." New York Times "...A touching and entertaining marital love story, stricken with tragedy within and without....[The] period work is first-rate throughout..." Variety "...Getchell has written with bite and compassion....Lange attacks these numbers with a real sense of Cline's raucous, outgoing style..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Jessica Lange is great in this biopic of country singer Patsy Cline..."Ultimate DVD24.1561

"[With] striking cinematography and rich production design, evoking the lower strata of 1860s Paris..."USA Today "[A] film rich in atmosphere..."Los Angeles Times "Olsen and Isaac smolder nicely on cue in their scenes together, and Lange easily fits into the role of the domineering Madame Raquin..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Director Charlie Stratton wraps his adaptation in the appropriate period dress of Zola's era."RogerEbert.com "The darkly muted colors, evoking gathering storms and winter chill, add a brooding note."New York Times "IN SECRET imbues Zolas dark tale of love, lust, and murder in the lower echelons of Paris with modern-day appeal in large part thanks to its stellar principal cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange, and Oscar Isaac."Film Comment 3 stars out of 5 -- "Director Charlie Stratton makes a decent fist of the ensuing intrigue..."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Sensitive performances from a willing cast bring Zola's novel to life on the big screen."Empire24.13754

"...It's gratifying to watch the splendid Jessica Lange inhabit a role...Cusack, who gets better with each film, is bewitching..." Rolling Stone "...[MEN DON'T LEAVE] gets by...on [Lange's] exceptional ability to hold an audience's attention, and on the warmly comic family scenes [Brickman] stages well..." New York Times "...[O'Donnell's] performance is a marvel of naturalness..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...It's a tender, beautifully acted, diabolically droll film on the subject of love, loss and the sheer blissful unpredictability of life..." Los Angeles Times23.98526

"...[Roth is] deliciously vicious....[Lange] turns in a great performance..." Premiere "...A rousing adventure..." Rolling Stone "...A smartly chosen cast, visible production values and chunky moral center..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...The heart of ROB ROY is the passionate interplay between Neeson and Lange, and the two are superb together..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly "...Handsome....Lovely....[The film] is stately..."Variety "...[Ms. Lange] displays great dignity mixed with raw, barely contained emotion..." New York Times "...Director Caton-Jones has give ROB ROY a beautiful wide-screen look, filled with gorgeous vistas..."Los Angeles Times "...This is a splendid, rousing historical adventure....What's best about this movie is its vivid picture of the time and place....ROB ROY is a fabulous entertainment..." Chicago Sun-Times23.50103

"...[Roth is] deliciously vicious....[Lange] turns in a great performance..." Premiere "...A rousing adventure..." Rolling Stone "...A smartly chosen cast, visible production values and chunky moral center..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...The heart of ROB ROY is the passionate interplay between Neeson and Lange, and the two are superb together..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly "...Handsome....Lovely....[The film] is stately..."Variety "...[Ms. Lange] displays great dignity mixed with raw, barely contained emotion..." New York Times "...Director Caton-Jones has give ROB ROY a beautiful wide-screen look, filled with gorgeous vistas..."Los Angeles Times "...This is a splendid, rousing historical adventure....What's best about this movie is its vivid picture of the time and place....ROB ROY is a fabulous entertainment..." Chicago Sun-Times23.50103

"...It's quite an accomplishment for Jessica Lange..." Variety "...A magnificent performance by Jessica Lange. Here is a performance so unfaltering, so tough, so intelligent and so humane that it seems as if [Lange] is just now, at long last, making her motion picture debut..." New York Times "...[Lange and Stanley's] suffocating scenes together have some of the gothic thrill of CARRIE..." Entertainment Weekly21.76109

"...LOSING ISAIAH is a highly affecting balancing act....Gyllenhaal brings out the passion in the material....Lange gives the film its core of knockabout sadness..."Los Angeles Times "...Lange gives LOSING ISAIAH its dramatic focus....[She] is the motor of this movie, the moral center, too..." Entertainment Weekly "...Berry brings vibrancy, wariness and determination to [the film]....Jefferies is a delight..."Variety "...Serious and affecting....Both Jessica Lange and Halle Berry breathe real life into their debating positions....The tone is thoughtful and temperate..."New York Times21.04763

"[V]isually majestic....DON'T COME KNOCKING is filled with haunting visual panoramas." New York Times "[N]ever less than fascinating.[The film has] a terrific sense of place, something missing from much contemporary US cinema." Sight and Sound "Director Wim Wenders' ambling tribute to American backwaters finds gems by the roadside." -- Grade: B_ Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Angst has rarely looked more sumptuous."Uncut20.73424

"...It has a feel for the subtleties of its genre....The film paints a hilarious picture of a wretched society from the opening shot..." Sight and Sound "...Fabulously mounted....Every scene has something to enjoy..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars USA Today "...The lush cinematography, set design, and costumes make this cynical tale a feast for the eyes..."Premiere "...Graceful, effervescent and amusingly arch..." Los Angeles Times20.5634

"THE VOW is a well-behaved, tenderhearted love story about impossibly nice people....The actors bring a dreamy warmth to their roles."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Much of the appeal is down to McAdams, on such charming form that it's just plain enjoyable to watch her..."Total Film20.5634

"THE VOW is a well-behaved, tenderhearted love story about impossibly nice people....The actors bring a dreamy warmth to their roles."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Much of the appeal is down to McAdams, on such charming form that it's just plain enjoyable to watch her..."Total Film20.5634

"THE VOW is a well-behaved, tenderhearted love story about impossibly nice people....The actors bring a dreamy warmth to their roles."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Much of the appeal is down to McAdams, on such charming form that it's just plain enjoyable to watch her..."Total Film20.5634

"Fosse's skills as a choreographer -- his inventive rhythms, his dazzling tableaux -- do translate to filmmaking." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "...The most forthrightly candid variation ever worked out on Peter Pan....A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider..."New York Times "Dazzling in its own right, it also offers an insight into backstage life..."Total Film20.5634

"Fosse's skills as a choreographer -- his inventive rhythms, his dazzling tableaux -- do translate to filmmaking." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "...The most forthrightly candid variation ever worked out on Peter Pan....A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider..."New York Times "Dazzling in its own right, it also offers an insight into backstage life..."Total Film20.5634

"...TOOTSIE is an extremely funny movie..." Sight and Sound "...Remarkably funny and entirely convincing....[The] film instantly takes flight with charm and confidence and stays aloft thereafter..." Variety "...Better than ever and looking better than ever..." USA Today "Hoffman had more than proven his chop by then; but this drama-comedy, male-female dichotomy of a film was something else again." Premiere "TOOTSIE earned 10 Oscar nods and remains a masterful farce..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The] gender-bender farce is still a gas, Hoff on virtuoso form as a turbulent actor flunking on Broadway....Something special."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]y playing its farcical situation for real, Dusty, Sydney et al were able to sprinkle the laughs with some serious musings on gender stereotyping and the differences between the sexes."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's some Wilder-ish wit..."Uncut0.1708372

"...TOOTSIE is an extremely funny movie..." Sight and Sound "...Remarkably funny and entirely convincing....[The] film instantly takes flight with charm and confidence and stays aloft thereafter..." Variety "...Better than ever and looking better than ever..." USA Today "Hoffman had more than proven his chop by then; but this drama-comedy, male-female dichotomy of a film was something else again." Premiere "TOOTSIE earned 10 Oscar nods and remains a masterful farce..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The] gender-bender farce is still a gas, Hoff on virtuoso form as a turbulent actor flunking on Broadway....Something special."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]y playing its farcical situation for real, Dusty, Sydney et al were able to sprinkle the laughs with some serious musings on gender stereotyping and the differences between the sexes."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's some Wilder-ish wit..."Uncut0.1708372

"...KING KONG is the screen's ultimate Beauty-and-the-Beast fable, and it endures through the power of innocence that has all but vanished from the screen..." Los Angeles Times "...KING KONG is more than a technical achievement. It is also a curiously touching fable....There is something ageless and primeval about KING KONG that still somehow works..." Chicago Sun-Times "...The grand-daddy of all monster movies..." Total Film "[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul." Premiere "[I]t's still the quintessential pulp saga, capable of popping eyeballs 70-odd years later without the help of computers." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[The] black-and-white granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies....The movie looks improved over earlier video and TV copies, and still packs a wallop..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 4 -- "What makes KONG unique is its mix of hokum, horror, and peculiar poetry..." Premiere Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..." Rolling Stone0.1366698